Does your church have a Christmas eve service?

[carissadawn]

It's our family's first year of going to church at the holidays (or any time, for that matter-we just started going to church this year.) Our church is having a service ths evening at 7. The pastor is going to say a short sermon and then the kids will get to decorate their own little Christmas cookies. We are just going to have some fun and fellowship for an hour or two. It sounds like so much fun, and I love that I get to go worship in God's house tonight.

Does your church do anything on Christmas eve?

[sunsetssplendor]

Something very informal is going on there tonight but I will not be able to make it. I used to go all the time for midnight mass when I was Catholic but no longer. I will be present on Saturday though for evening services.

[karenoka27]

Our church has service every Wednesday. We usually have it at 7:00p.m.,but tonight it will be at 6:00p.m. so that people can do their visiting.

[ServantofTruth]

Our church has a 10am morning wednesday service. I don't know if the usual 7pm service will happen on Christmas day. SofTy.

[miepie]

We've been to the Christmas Eve Service of our church here..... it started at 10:00 pm and lasted about 1 1/2 hour..... and I really liked it! :pp

Love you,
Mieke :kiss:

[Organist]

We have two (2) services in the evening on Christmas Eve. The first at 7:00 p.m. is more popular for families with children (pastor gives a children's sermonette) and the carols to be sung are focus more on children, include: "O Come, All Ye Children," "Gentle Mary Laid Her Child" (uses tune of "Good King Wenceslas"), "Away in a Manger," etc., while the 11:00 p.m. tends to draw more adults (teenagers all the way up to folks eighty and over). For the later hour, we use music like "Come Your Hearts and Voices Raising," "Of the Father's Love Begotten," "On Christmas Night All Christians Sing," and "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come" all of these being quite a bit more theological in depth, than at the earlier hour. Both conclude with everyone lighting a candle and joining in singing, "Silent Night."

At our 9:30 a.m. Christmas morning service the Sacrament of Holy Communion is served and carols include the stately popular ones like: "O Come, All Ye Faithful," "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," etc.

[Whispering Grace]

Our church doesn't normally do a special Christmas Eve service, but we did have church this time for our normal Wednesday evening service.

On years it doesn't fall on Sunday or Wednesday, we attend Christmas Eve service at another church.